The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 17, 1919, Page 2

IS: IT FREEDOM FOR CALIFORNIA?/CZARI IS BEFORE PEACE MEET il CLAIM Friends in Paris, Moved by Prohibition in U.S., File Imposing Docu- ment With American Delegates. California’s plea for autonomous government is before the peace con- gress. Which means that Placed 2 formal claim before peace delegates for a government dent of that of the United States the great Golden State. This will be the first information| that. Californians at home have of the} fact., But California has friends and loyal} sons: in Paris—as everywhere; men | a talk i the fire, not the earth- quake; who sit up all night singing “California and You"; who walk out| of restaurants that serve no California | Wines; who recite poems about the California sun, Most of them were peace conference Press correspondents (there were a| few officials) all expert by now in the| phraseology of state claims and the ex- sravagances of diplomacy, At a momentous meeting in Amert- “in ‘Press headquarters, following a| Prohibition argument outlinihg the growth of “the movement toward an autonomous California, which has been growing ever since the national pro- hibition amtndment threatened the French restaurant industry,”. Sound familar? , Then they wrote for California, her statement of claims. Here it is: “If'California advanced her full his- tori¢'claim to the frontier of 1847, we should demand Nevada, parts of Utah, New:Mexico, Arizona and much of the American parts of Texas. “However, we wish to respect, so far as possible, the principle of self-re- termination; and with two or three exceptions, we intend to follow cli- matie lines and confine the bounding of 1919 to the Sierra Nevada moun- for | i The great exception is Nevada. “Bhe origina) settlers of Nevada started for California and never ar- rived. We Intend to bring California to tyem. “Second. we advance the’ economic claim. For years California has done tore than her part in sustaining the best known industry of Reno; further, we regard the Owens Valley basin as necessary to our economic life. “Third, and most important, ‘is the meterological claim. The climate of Nevada owes salubriousness to the Cal- ifornja influence. “We might, on the same grounds, claim part of Utah; but the religious consideration couses us to draw the; new lin e at the Utah frontier. | “We will be firm on the Nevada! question. It is our California irri-, denta. “With Oregon we shall be moderate. | We recognize the. ethnic difference. | However, we must have possession, or | at least neutralization of Klanath Lake} together with a corridor giving us free access, The breeding graund of the Pacifie Wild Fowl, it does its part to-t ward supporting our French restaur-| ants, whose lamentable condition is the economic cause of our demands for autonomy, i “Los Angeleg presents a perplexing! problem. We hold in'the ristrict un-} doubted historic, economie and climatic! claims. However, we realize the eth-} nie claim of Iowa, and our present} policy is ta make of Los Angeles and and its surroundings, an enclav San Pedro harbor should be inter-| nationalized,: giving our southern San | Joaquin Valley free access to the_sea. However, there is. a strongly. activist Native Son element, whose claims we} may fee) it our duty to recognize: | ‘The claim that Catalina Island/ should also be internationalizgd on the| ground that it is used by hermen of all nations, we regard absurd. That, and the other colonies such as the Santa Barbara Islands and the Farralones are ours by histaric right. “We sholl. however—in -case she it—recognize on ethnic grounds Ataly’s claim to the small strips from Irinales Bay northward. some one has |? indepen- | Fj | factor to 1 Presenting California’s Claims | Autonomy, tional aspiration. While we believe in the I ue of Nations, and will trust the decision of our claims to its ice, we shall see that our historic are not infringed. We are a national army and the na- tional refense been placed in the hands of our scholar-soldier General David 8, Jordan, “The form of government will prob- ably be Republican, foll ng the his- torie tradition of our forefathers. However, a monarchist movement has developed among the sturdy and loyal plainsmen of the Burlingame region. “Their politic is peculiar, and may lave to be considered im.case the mon- arehich movement gains strength. They wish to unite as separate kingdoms under one throne. Hawa ing the throne to the dukes og Woi The present heir-appar- ent of that family, under thee incognito of Major John T. McGraw, Js serving with the American forces im’ France. And this fact gives them hape to a strong repprochment with the: United States, should their plan of aufonomy be consummated.” Having completed the statement, the self-appointed . California committee solemnly presented copies to the Am@r- ican \delegates. The committee's final word to Cal- ifornia is this: “If anybody criticizes our moderate claims as absurd, refer them to the ex- trayngant demands presented by the ‘other peoples’ of the world.” STEELE. GIRLS TAKE REVENGE ON JAMESTOWN Fast Kidder County Quint Cleans Up Squad From Valley of the Jim Steele, N. D., March 17.—In a well Nayed, hard fought game staged Sat- urday evening in the Klinefelter opera house the Steele girls defeated James- town college by a score of 12 to 9. Jomestown started the scoring in the first quarter but Steele came right back with a field goal which tied the score. The next point was made by Steele on a free throw the quarter end- ing3to2. In the next quarter James- town made one field throw, while Steele came through with two making the score at the end of the half Stecle 7: Jamestown college, 4. N The third quarter was marred by an accident to Miss Martin, Jamestown’s star forward. ra time it was thot she was badly injured, but after a few minutes of rest she proved she ¥ there, by making a basket on the first tip-off. The scoring in the last half was even each side making five points. For Jamestown Ebersole and Martin. ut forward and Armstrong at guard were the rs. _ Ebersole connected with the basket for. four points and. Martin threw one field goal and three free throws, and was also the main in Jamestown’s team. work. Jamestown’s weakest’ point was at center which proved the statement er- roneous “That the Steele center was entirely under control” Steele’s main strength was in. their tight guarding and the breaking up of the dribble plays by Bergman and Stirwold which were so disastrous in in the Jamestown game. ‘ Shyder at center and MeCulloch at forward the point makers for Steele, the former making three field goals and two foul shots and. the latter caging two field goals, Their team- work was @lso responsible for points made, “A. bigger, brighter, better Califor- nia, with a free Franch restaurant in- dustry, from Siskiyou to San Deigo, from the ‘Sierra to the"sea, is our na- ) Foye at forward while not making any points put up a scrappy game tho closely guarded by Jamestown’s star guard, Armstrong. Steele’s winning makes it a fifty- fifty proposition and arrangements are under way to play a deciding game on a neutral floor. Line-up < RF Steele MeCulloch ~ Foye Snyder Stirwald Jamestown Martin Ebersole Davis Armstrong Miller Foye of Steele. 4 LIS MARKETS. eelpts 265 cars, eo California and | NA’SLAST LOVE LETTER Historic Human Document Published Here for the First Time—Brought to America by:Poet- Correspondent Carl Sandburg, famous. American poet, and staff correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise Association and the Daily Tribune, has returned from Stockholm and other centers of north- ern urope, bringing with him an im- mense amount of human interest docu- ments, pictures and news features from Russia, Germany and the neutral na- tions ‘of the north. One ‘of-his most interesting prizes is a letter—the last one written by the ex-czarina, before the ‘abdication, to the czar, who died later as Nicholas Romanoff, plain citizen. “The strangest letter of love, war and religion ever written by a woman,” Sandburg calls this document. “It was written, when the rumblings of revolutions were shaking the czar loose from the throne of the Romanoff dynasty. It is a page of terrible real- ities, high tragedy ‘confessions of a wife?” 1 The czarina never saw her husband as czar again after she wrote this let- ter. The next time she saw him he had stepped off the throne and flung his crowns, sceptors and emoluments into the street. Her last words to him as czat were, “We are always together and shall never be parted. Good-by. my dear! Come back soon. Be good, go to the Mother Mary church, where litics, I have so often proyed for you. When the revolutionary struggles in Russia have let down and they hay little time to think about yesterday rather than today and tomorrow, there will be more letters published, it is predicted. The full text of the cz ina’s, last letter to the czar as caar, reads as follows: The Last Love Letter of the Czarina. Tsarkoc, Selo, Feb, 27, 1917. MY PEST BEL! D: Sorrow and a hurt was inside me when I let you go by yourself without any company at all from our rare little Bebe. What a ghastly time itds we are living through! And our parting ata this time makes it all the more ghastly. For now when you are tired and worn out I cannot be near by to} take care of you. God has laid a heavy cross on you. T wish deep within me that I could help you carry this burden. You are brave and plucky. With all my soul T am suffering with you, more than I ean say in any words I write you. What can I do more than pray to God and pray again. Our dear friend (Rasputin) who now finds himself in the other world, he, too, prays to God for you. There he is near to But how willingly I would consent his comforting and quiet voice now. T am convinced God is going to reward you for what you must now suffer and} Stand against. But how long must we-now wait? It does seem as though our situation is gofig to improve. My dear, all you need is to be firm and show the strength of you hand! That is just what the Russians need. You have} never failed to show them kindness and ‘goodness of heart—let them now understand that your fist be doubled and ready ! They ask that of you them- selves. Many have said lately to me, | “We need the knout.” ‘It is strange, | but such is the nathre of the Slav. To be firm now means to be cruel and warmly loving at one and the ‘same time, From the time-they first came to know you and Kalinjin (Minister Protopopov) they have been more! quiet. You must teach them to he; afraid of you—you affection is tov little for them. A child that car for its father must be afraid to be di So det and. bring sorrow to its father. Somestimes a man must drive with fight reins, not loose, never letting Ko. but keeping the strongest hand he knows how to use. Then people will think more highly of him. _ The hu-} man heart is mysterious. The upper classes dc not in their hearts care for a mild course of conduct, In associa- | tion with them a spirit of detefmina- | tion is needed, particularly now. I was sorry that we could not be alone at our last breakfast together. The children wanted to be there, too. Poor Xenia (the .czar’s sister) is to be pitied. Her daughter has. married her- self into a worthless and yicious family and taken a husband who is beneath her. I think she has gone far wrong. How much sorrow and suffering ther js in the world now! A great heart. pain torments humanity, and’ there seems nv end to it. aad I wish we could find a way to live in quiet and peace. May it be granted us to b@strong and’ struggle forward on our thorny way, forward ta a ra- diant goal! I hope you will not. have any difficulties with Alexiev and that you cau.soon coma back. ‘This is not. i selfish hope. I understand ‘on too well how “the bellowing mob” acts when you are near, They are afraid of you now -and they must he made still more afraid of you. Therefore, wherever you go they must tremble hefore you.. Among the cabinet min ters, too, you are & power and a leader. | Come back soon. | You see what I ask of yon is not for my own sake and not at all for Babe's sake, because we know you keep us in your thoughts all the time. I know the duty that takes you away from us never be parted. Good-by, my dear! MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919 UTIRRT & e 6 todight. Also, ‘a two ree? 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So thengas tablet or two, all the ine quick as you can clear up your affairs eS ASS, iy H we be good and come back here by the first Gestion, gases, Leg asi of March, when I hope that ‘all will ity and stomarh distress be ar it ought to be, F ends—Instantly ! Come home. Your wife—your help- 5 ‘ : meet stands\on watch back of the front. s littl—All drug tt is true she cannot do much. But | § Buy a box! ‘ all who have been near by know she a" - : 4 is your supporter. | ; SET? WS Diape sin Your Teter y eyes ache with tears. 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